Smart car recharges in Air­lie

MARC Tal­loen ar­rived in Air­lie Beach on Fri­day morn­ing and left fully charged.

Mr Tal­loen owns a Tesla S85 elec­tric car and has em­barked on a mis­sion to drive from his house in south-east Queens­land to Cape Tribulation and back in a bid to pro­mote the ben­e­fits of his sleek ride

He and his wife de­cided to use Air­lie Beach as one of the recharg­ing points along his elec­tri­fy­ing jour­ney.

“There are two as­pects of my trip,” he said.

“One is a good hol­i­day. The other as­pect is I want to ... mo­ti­vate peo­ple to buy elec­tri­cal cars and (pro­mote) re­new­able energy to prove to them you can start to move around over big dis­tances. The tech­nol­ogy is avail­able.”